Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This shift in position marked a decline in status as well as income , but was preferable perhaps to being sacked . |
| 2 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 3 | ‘ Cheek ! ’ she said , in a voice she hoped was loud enough to be heard . |
| 4 | But he was stable enough to be transferred from the town 's general hospital to the specialist Walton centre for neurology and neurosurgery in Liverpool , where he remains on a ventilator . |
| 5 | The third was tall enough to be seen from the sea , both east and west of the island . |
| 6 | But Hugh of Lyons counselled acceptance , and indeed there was little else to be done . |
| 7 | Was that merely to be sociable — for her husband 's sake — or should he read something more into it ? |
| 8 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |
| 9 | And she was careful not to be found out ; her recklessness , she says was only apparent : she always thought of Anna . |
| 10 | I was careful not to be as blatant with Émile . |
| 11 | That man , who was old enough to be her father , had ‘ completely destroyed her trust , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 13 | He was old enough to be Phil 's father . |
| 14 | By the time I was old enough to be officially admitted to ‘ X ’ certificate performances the ‘ sixties had dawned and La Dolce Vita . |
| 15 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 16 | She could almost hear the tick of its works , that and the beat of her heart ; for , if Rab was young enough to be her son , then her husband was old enough to be her father . |
| 17 | He was old enough to be her father , and she convinced herself that she was suffering from too much imagination . |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 19 | I felt my age ascending as his dropped : I was old enough to be his mother . |
| 20 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 21 | But she was old enough to be assigned a dowry , a stretch of land which lay between the rivers Seine , Epte and Andelle , known as the Norman Vexin . |
| 22 | As soon as the infant Arthur was old enough to be propped against the proscenium arch , he was included in the turn . |
| 23 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 24 | Although , she thought with uncharitable spitefulness , he was old enough to be her father . |
| 25 | He was old enough to be her father ! |
| 26 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |
| 27 | Although the Vineyard had little effect on the planting of vines in England , it was popular enough to be reprinted four times as an appendix to Evelyn 's translation of Nicolas de Bonnefons ' The French Gardiner in successive editions from 1669 to 1691 . |
| 28 | I took myself off and got some decent therapy and learnt that it was OK just to be — I did n't have to do all the time . |
| 29 | She had seen little but the outline of him , and the walk , which was individual enough to be remembered , once seen ; rapid and vehement , with a long stride that barely lit upon the earth before leaving it again as vigorously . |
| 30 | Traffic was passing that way as early as the Shang dynasty and under the Han the silk route was crucial enough to be incorporated in the Empire . |